Ah! I used to always say she was the first, I think that most people agree she deserved the Tony as she was definitely the best! Of course I’ve got to take their word for it because that was all a bit before my time! 😀

Dearest V
At last some wire work.
The very devil of the life theatrical! Have you ever tried?
I can’t help thinking that Ms Martin is deploying a little poetic license in her musings on freedom.
Trussed up like a turkey and hanging from a thread would sum it up for The D!
Yours ever
The Perfumed Dandy

In the theatre it is an astonishing effect though…
A splendid revival of Mary Poppins (our other at-nursery-window-interloper) had the show ending with Mary blank faced and disconsolate drifting out over the heads of the audience at The Palladium.
One could here a pin drop. The poignancy and pain in this apparently simple coup de theatre the sugar filled spoon straight back in the audience’s collective face.
Yours ever
The Perfumed Dandy

It’s not so much the harness that makes me ill… every woman who’s ever played Peter Pan nauseates me slightly. Like Hollywood using white actors to play Asian parts. Or full-sized actors to play dwarves. When there are boy actors, Asian actors, and little actors, I say use them for the parts they qualify for.